This is going immediately into my “I really need everyone to read this” pile. Sered does an amazing job of illustrating what restorative justice can look like and, while it begins as a case for restorative justice as an alternative to our current carceral system, as the book goes on, it makes the case for societal restorative justice that had me going, “fuck yes, this is the world I want to live in.”

I’ve actually read a few prison abolition books in the last week and, while I was head nodding with a lot of the points being made and stewing over all the horrible stories of what incarceration does to our society, this is the first that had me pumping my fist and actually feeling motivated to do something about it.

Highly recommended read.